Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
AL FRANKENGoogle’s screen for privacy settings does give you more options for what you share than Apple’s does. But it’s not a complete list, and people aren’t aware of whether or not that information will go to a third party.
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Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?
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There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
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My dad didn’t graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year.
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It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.
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Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.
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The Freedom of Information Act doesn’t apply to Silicon Valley. And you can’t impeach Google if it breaks its ‘Don’t be evil’ campaign pledge.
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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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I just can’t sit still and meditate; that doesn’t kind of work for me. I don’t even know exactly what it means.
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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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If someone hacks your password, you can change it – as many times as you want.
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Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.
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There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.
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But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we’re an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we’re going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
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My spiritual life is… sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don’t. When I do have access to it, it’s usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do.
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I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
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If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it’d be a travesty.
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Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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I want a president who can handle a cream soda.
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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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